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Kyrgyz Genealogies and Lineages: Histories, Everyday Life and Patriarchal Institutions in Northwestern Kyrgyzstan

open access: yesGenealogy, 2018
Uruu patrilineages and genealogical narratives about them are important aspects of Kyrgyz social practice and reflect some tensions and contradictions in contemporary Kyrgyz self-understanding and identities.
Nathan Light
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Troubling Futures: Can Participatory Design Research provide a Constitutive Anthropology for the 21st Century? [PDF]

open access: yesInteraction Design and Architecture(s), 2015
This paper argues there is value in considering participatory design as a form of anthropology at a time when we recognise that we need not only to understand cultures but to change them towards sustainable living.
Ann Light
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Networked Masculinities and Social Networking Sites: A Call for the Analysis of Men and Contemporary Digital Media

open access: yesMasculinities and Social Change, 2013
It is of course recognised that technology is gendered and is implicated in gender relations. However, it continues to be the case that men’s experiences with technology are underexplored and the situation is even more problematic where digital media is
Ben Light
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The Heterogeneity of Empathy: Possible Treatment for Anhedonia?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Traditionally, empathy has been described as a process by which an individual “tries on” the negative emotion of others (i. e., empathic concern). A corpus of empirical work has been devoted to the study of this particular form of empathy.
Sharee N. Light
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The Snowden Archive-in-a-Box: A year of travelling experiments in outreach and education

open access: yesBig Data & Society, 2016
The Snowden Archive-in-a-Box is an offline wireless network and web server providing private access to a replica of the Snowden Digital Surveillance Archive. The online version is hosted by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.
Evan Light
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Mapping interdisciplinary fields: efficiencies, gaps and redundancies in HIV/AIDS research. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
While interdisciplinarity continues to increase in popularity among funders and other scientific organizations, its potential to promote scientific advances remains under-examined.
Jimi Adams, Ryan Light
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Imaginative Geographies, Dracula and the Transylvania ‘Place Myth’ [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2008
Imaginative geographies have become a central concept in Anglo-American cultural geography in recent years. We all form knowledge, ideas and beliefs in our minds about what other places are ‘like’.
Duncan Light
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Using EEG-Guided Basket and Umbrella Trials in Psychiatry: A Precision Medicine Approach for Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2018
Due to advances over the last several decades, many fields of medicine are moving toward a precision medicine approach where treatments are tailored to nuanced patient factors. While in some disciplines these innovations are commonplace leading to unique
Yash B. Joshi   +2 more
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Identification of a Non-Pentapeptide Region Associated with Rapid Mycobacterial Evolution. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
A large portion of the coding capacity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is devoted to the production of proteins containing several copies of the pentapeptide-2 repeat, namely the PE/PPE_MPTR proteins.
Per Warholm, Sara Light
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Alienation and Stress among Doctors: Dilemmas and Possible Solutions

open access: yesProfessions and Professionalism, 2015
Studies of alienation, stress, burnout, and dissatisfaction among doctors are plagued by unclear and varied definition of these terms. Many are small, local, and short, which limit insights.
Donald W. Light
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